J Valenzuela Didi and Jonathan Bentley

17 March - 3 April 2018

J VALENZUELA DIDI
Brisbane artist J Valenzuela Didi draws on the emergence of patterns and geometric shapes to explore common scenes and signposts of modern life. In his paintings, familiar urban landscapes become haunting and alien reminders of the beauty and character of the present-day.

JONATHAN BENTLEY
Jonathan Bentley is an award winning illustrator, artist and author. He has illustrated over twenty children's books, written and illustrated three and seen them published in thirteen languages. Jonathan's 'Inked' series of paintings represents his desire to keep exploring his creative practice.

Ann Maree Clark, Michael Simms & Bronwyn Hill

BULIMBA 2 March - 1 April 2018

Ann Maree Clark
Ann Maree’s observations of everyday life reflect her interest in the classical transcendentals - truth, beauty and goodness. Painting from life, her work conveys the rediscovery of these ideals in the visible world.

Textiles and interiors are beautiful in themselves but also rich with historical and symbolic meaning. These works also explore texture and weight, the sureness of light, and the sense of limit and depth in interior space.

Michael Simms
This series reflects an overall fascination with moments of transformation and change. They explore the complex relationships we all have with the environment and the variability of the natural world governed by forces outside of our control. It is the tension between the precarious and the sublime aspects of the natural world that is the genesis of these works.

Lindy Sale, Roy Martin & James Ainslie

Pat Hall

7 - 25 April 2018

Pat Hall is inspired by the textures, colours and dazzling sunlight of Australian gardens and bushland. Pat predominately works in watercolour onto large, stretched sheets of Arches paper which is then sealed in a clear protective coating.

Bronwyn Searle

7 - 25 April 2018

Bronwyn Searle is well known for her appreciation of everyday objects that most people step over without a second glance. She has an ability to capture them in a way that elevates them far beyond the mundane, leading us to see them in a completely new light.

John Morris

28 April - 16 May 2018

John Morris's sculptures explore an ongoing fascination with the human form and anatomy; deconstruction, modified and added to. Intricately carved from wood his works spring from exhaustive sketching, illustration and research exploring the space between the second and third dimensions.

Chris Martin

28 April - 16 May 2018

Chris Martin’s current work explores the way imagery can allude to the humanity that connects us – but with focus on the obvious means (the eyes and face) that we normally associate with a window to the soul.

Throughout his work he depicts the frailty, insecurity, confidence, and normality of ordinary people buy showing their stage-managed ‘front’.

Lix North

28 April - 16 May 2018

Lix North's eccentric, hyperrealist portraits explore her own internal landscape and its reflection in the world around her. Laced with metaphor, augmented with ornate detail and a hint of satire, her portraits juxtapose the commonplace with the wonderfully strange.

Marissa Veerman

19 May - 6 June 2018

Marisa has developed a technique through a deep personal desire to find a peaceful silence, to pause in an in-between place. Her stitching is a deliberate act to take time, linger and to move slowly with a quiet consideration for the developing artwork.

Sarah Hickey

19 May - 6 June 2018

Sarah Hickey's series of female idols are inspired by images of women from a variety of contexts, histories and worlds. The complex layering of imagery and patterns depict beauty, spiritual iconography and the feminine.

Bronwyn Hill

23 June - 8 July 2018

Bronwyn Hill is recognised by her hyperreal figurative paintings. Her artworks follow a narrative, representing a change of state of mind, scene and of new beginnings. This new series looks to the interior, expressing the personal and intimate, moving toward new experiences.

Alex Louisa

23 June - 8 July 2018

Alex Louisa is a collector, working with items gathered from her wanderings - feathers, leaves, seedpods, lichen, shells, insects and bones. By sharing the natural elements that captive her, Alex encourages the viewer to take a closer look at their surroundings.

Lethbridge 10 000 Small Scale Art Award

14 July 2018

The Lethbridge Gallery has established a strong reputation for exhibiting works demonstrating exceptional detail and creativity. With the intention of fostering the next generation of artists, Lethbridge Gallery initiated the Lethbridge 10000.

This exciting art competition is open to national and international artists for small-scale artwork, up to 61cm in any direction.

The Judging is based on three equally evaluated criteria of creativity, originality and skill with the winner receiving $10 000 prize money.

Sarah Hickey and Lucy Bonnin

Scott McDougall

8 - 26 September 2018

In this collection of new paintings by Scott McDougall he blends children's games with the dark edge of the Brothers Grimm and a good dose of Greek mythology. His colour palette and sense of iconography is influenced by Giovanni Bellini as well as Carravaggio's technique of strong chiaroscuro effects.

Scott Breton

13 - 31 October 2018

Winner of the 2016 Lethbridge 10 000, Scott Breton's interest in contemporary classical artists is evident throughout his artwork. Inspired by Renaissance thinking and aesthetics, his new exhibition explores a mysterious and personal landscape of the family property he grew up on.

Ai Shah

3 - 21 November 2018

The recurring inspiration behind Ai Shah's paintings is water. In a constant state of transformation, water is always on the move, taking shapes, forms and textures, playing hide and seek with the light and reflecting the changing world around it.

Tsering Hannaford

Tsering Hannaford is a realist painter based in Adelaide, South Australia.

Following the values of her father, artist Robert Hannaford, Tsering's work centres around working from life.

Portraiture is a focus of her practice and she has been hung three times in the Archibald Prize (2015, 2016,2017). In 2014 she was highly commended for the Portia Geach Memorial Award and she has been a semi-finalist in the Doug Moran National Portrait Prize (2014).

Tsering’s still life paintings explore themes of impermanence and renewal.

“My greatest ambition in my work is to allow the viewer to feel like they could be standing right there in the room with me- experiencing the same delicate light, the mood, the stillness. In this way I feel I can draw attention to the quiet beauty found in everyday life.”

Jan Jorgensen

BULIMBA 2 November - 2 December 2018

Jan Jorgensen is a Brisbane icon, her much loved paintings are inspired by her hometown and depict the buildings, homes and streetscapes of the inner suburbs that are iconic to Brisbane. These settings are familiar, sometimes surprising, but not to be taken at face value. Woven into the architecture and the history are the stories of the place and the people who have lived there.

Jodie Wells

24 November - 12 December 2018

Jodie Wells manages to capture her images in what is perceived to be minimal broad strokes, spread vibrantly with a palette knife. Her richly textured style combined with a dramatic use of colour creates vivid interpretations of nature.